"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)."Erik Keilholtz

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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children.Email

Goodbye, Dolly Gray? As a Red Sox fan, I'm well acquainted with the baseball equivalent of Lucy's pulling the ball from Charlie Brown at the last second. And I thought Boston city politics set the standard in petty hackery. But the display of double-dealing by the DC Council that may cost Washington baseball fans their long-awaited team is quite breathtaking.